Who is she? I know the folks in Jackson Heights Beautification Group - Dan and Jeff. She is a blank.

We need someone who is an activist that came up through the ranks and we all know the list. She is a blank.

We have newspapers and politicians and 'organizations' that repesent the borough (and do a lousy job at it). She is a blank.

So what criteria to select her was used? She is a blank.

Since the Manhattan-centric preservation community has put all their eggs in the basket that all our problems will be solved by the composition LPC, we should be happy that her address is Queens, so we should sit down and shut up?

She is with the Library board (the organization that has developers as directors and who takes away playgounds for branches and tears down historic buildings for crap) and she has worked for the (roll of drums) PARKS department.

These people were not nominated for you and me, they were put in to help their communities, Douglaston and Jackson Heights - part of that mystery club of the elite nieghborhoods in this city that has that mysterious x factor and passed the bar.

Hell they wouldn't know a Richmond Hill from a Richmond Hill(s) and a St Saviours from , well you get the picture.

You hit the nail on the head with that one. We can see all the Manhattan-centric guys hailing the new commissioner giving proof positive of the new dawn for Queens.

The point is that commissioners should be activists with a proven track record. Think of any major advocacy group in this city. The rank and file have a voice and the leadership is appointed from its ranks. Not here.

Will Diana Chapin succumb to the development pressures as other LPC commissioners already have? Only time will tell. When I see the commissioners rallying with us, that's when they're living up to their title and respecting our neighborhoods and its people. Paul Graziano, Kevin Wolfe, & Ivan Mrakovcic are much more qualified to serve as commissioners. Was the appointment of Diana Chapin deliberate and politically tied? I bet!

Diana Chapin also heads the Queens Library Foundation. Wonder how she's reacting to the Elmhurst Carnegie Library preservation dilemma? Will she take a hands-off stance or flip flop like many other of our elected officials do? They're all unofficial in my book!

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